Confused about whether the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to you?  It does if you do business in or with Europe. 

With the GDPR, the improper management of EU citizen personal data could result in an audit and fine unless IT leaders for all global enterprises adjust their information management and backup strategies. In New GDPR Mandates Require Changes to Storage Management, Gartner discusses the data protection directive and the key challenges to achieve compliance by the May 2018 deadline.

Read this report to see why Gartner recommends you implement technologies and processes such as file analysis and archiving to make sure it is possible to comply with requests from natural persons protected under the GDPR and EU supervisory bodies.  Learn why Gartner further recommends, where possible, you reduce backup retention to only what is required for operational recovery.